Movies
- In Competition -
Opatija Summer Stage
1001 Nights tells the story of EMA (85) and MAJA (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema’s apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness. This is a story about a microcosmos that appears where we least expect it, but when we...
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After the established diagnosis and the initial fear of its development, Ivan Faktor decided to visualize his own state with Parkinson's disease with a mobile phone camera. After 50 years of filmmaking, his passion for art and life is still here. He is filming himself, his wife, the yard, the street, the studio, and above all the light attractions in his house. Through interventions in document...
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A look at the Hrelić fair and its clear hierarchy through the stories of the seller Pero.
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After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard "Uljanik" became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers.
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Sound engineer and musician Božo Ilić is trying to heal the psychological trauma caused by the earthquake in Zagreb in March 2020. Božo is a resident of Markuševac, the place where the epicentre of the earthquake is located. In attempt to face the trauma, Božo tries to shake his house again with a powerful sound system and recreate the earthquake to overcome the fear of it.
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Galeb (en. the seagull) was Yugoslav president Tito's ship that served to promote peace between East and West. This documentary essay traces its reconstruction through the testimony of its last officer. Meanwhile, the locals near the shipyard burn an effigy in a carnivallike ritual, symbolising the end of winter and the dispelling of all evil. The story of Galeb is not only that of a ship, but...
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For four generations, women from the filmmaker's family have been engaged in the arts. In addition to their artistic talent, they share a common thread: repeating similar relationship patterns with men. 'The Genes of My Children' is a story about women who have left a mark on local culture and explores the weight of women emancipation over different time periods.
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In Croatia, where conservatism still persists, ballroom offers a sanctuary for LGBTQ performers. Valentina (29), a talented dancer and veteran of the scene, struggles with everyday demands, while young trans man Teo (21) searches for community and acceptance. He finds both in Valentina, who supports him through his transition while he opens her heart to emotions she has long kept at bay. As the...
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Driton is a Kosovar who defended the Croatian colors during the war, and today a torn flag flutters on his red-white-blue shack, which he tries to repair.
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When the house is finished, then the man dies. That's what the Chinese or Indians say.
Opatija Summer Stage
A meditative poem beyond words, on the eternal return. Nature through human being and human being through nature in the metaphysics of creation and disappearance.
Opatija Summer Stage
At one of the busiest highway junctions near Zagreb, Croatia a motel called ”Plitvice” employs forty people and has no guests. It’s a unique decaying microcosmos, within which the time seems to have stopped, reflecting the fate of many former socialist state companies.
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Silvestar has for some time been the oldest Kolbas in his family. His parents are dead; his father died before the war, his mother a few years back. He is 68. He had a younger brother, who died from the consequences of the war. This is his second marriage. He has three children: Jakov, from his first marriage; Eva, from his second marriage, conceived in vitro; and Ante, adopted from an orphanag...
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On the island of Vis, various characters face society's eternal dilemma: tradition or progress. From fishermen and activists to the mayor and a foreign investor, each brings their views as tensions rise between those pushing for tourism expansion and those advocating for sustainability. For the past decades, the South African owner of the dilapidated Neptune canning factory has been promising t...
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After finding out that she has to undergo an operation, the author begins with mental preparation for it. Everyone thinks their story is the worst, but when she comes to the hospital, she realizes that there are much worse and more difficult ones. This is a story about them and us.
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Through hidden observation of other people, their bodies and behavior in space, the narrator shares experiences about her body and tries to find peace in her relationship with herself.
Opatija Summer Stage
"Beyond Limits" is a documentary film that follows the protagonist through his audio confession, revealing layers of emotions and inner struggles. The voice of an anonymous man guides us through a series of visual representations and spaces that reflect his hidden sufferings and regrets. Through different locations – from the interior of his own home, dark corridors, to city streets –...
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A short documentary that follows life dynamics and family relationships after the breakup of a marriage. To what extent friendly relations after divorce are really accepted in society, how the wider family perceives the changes that are taking place and what the process of growing up looks like, are questions to which the film tries to subtly provide an answer to. The film begins with the direc...
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Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of my...
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The author revisits places tied to memories and captures them with a Polaroid camera, then manipulates the photos using an AI program. The film explores the reliability of memories, how they change over the years, and how these changes shape our perception of the past.
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Željko is the head of the Gredelj Wagon Factory trade union. His deputy Mladen committed suicide after large public protests and conflicts within the trade union. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels over Mladen's death and the expectation of the workers to lead a strike that should set back the government's EU-ordered plans to send the company into bankruptcy. The story that this film dea...
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Half forgotten song echoes through memory. Can you remember? Was I a good grandson?
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Rijeka is the point of transition for groups of migrants fleeing to a new life. There they live at the train station until the next trip. Thete they all meet Tinka, who is fighting for better conditions and their safe departure. Until she leaves Rijeka herself.
Opatija Summer Stage
The wagons didn't interest me; how could they... when I was looking at the ship. From the window as it entered our bay...
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Wandering through the city, breaking through the light and fragmented thoughts in a kaleidoscope of movement and loss. Through tram rides, the sounds of cafes, and conversations from benches, the author takes us on an intimate journey through the motion of the night and a collage of lost words.
Opatija Summer Stage
In the interior of the island of Brač, a group of women lives in an unusual off grid community. They do not believe in private property or hierarchy, they manage the community by direct democracy, share the land, they grow and forge plants trying to be autonomous as much as they can. They are plagued by drought, lack of water and resources, as well as climatic changes. Each of the members of th...
- Regionale -
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
In 2017, Krešo Kovačiček, a key figure in Rijeka's alternative scene, disappears. The search, involving police, journalists, and film directors, takes them to France. Along the way, they discover fragments of Krešo’s art and life, unravelling the mystery behind his enigmatic disappearance.
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
City beach, a sanctuary where many seek relief on scorching summer days. Bare bodies in search of refreshment, inflatable floats, ice creams, cocktails. A choreography of escape from the searing asphalt reality.
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
Film as a performative game of immersion, living and reviving the dead grandfather. Breaking the linear view of history, approaching the experience of the known as other, foreign and unknowable. Moving from real to imagined spaces, exploring the boundaries between autobiography and fiction. Stretching from a warm and close kinship interpersonal relationship to a foreign, distant, outsider.
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
"Silver Women" is an intense portrait of Bolivian women who live a miserable life in a mining community near the city of Potosi. Filmed over the course of a month in 2014, the film explores women's contribution to the mining economy, while simultaneously problematizing their marginalization and stigmatization within Andean culture. Director Barbara Babačić asks questions about the eco...
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
Formed around four main stories, the film combines visually impressive segments with the testimonies of female partisans. Nanica (18) died young during the war and left behind a diary. Marija (87) gave an audio interview a couple of years ago and we have her audio recording. Hilda (105) and Zdenka (96) passionately testify about their war and post-war experiences. The film searches for hidden f...
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, regionale
, Villa Antonio
The documentary film "Street Lamps" brings a touching and inspiring story about the first Croatian magazine of the same name dedicated to homelessness and related social issues, founded in 2008 in Rijeka. Through the personal stories of the sellers, this documentary portrays their unique lives, yet similar in their struggle for dignity and recognition, reflecting the spirit and challe...
- Films by Restart -
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, restart
, Opatija Summer Stage
"And what exactly do you do?" – "Oh, you are the ones who take money from the state and do nothing." A film that, with clips from the everyday life of a cultural worker, problematizes some of the conditions and ways of working of the independent cultural sector, and at the same time seeks the reason and purpose of working in it. From flexible working hours, underpayment, pro...
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, restart
, Opatija Summer Stage
Autobiographical snapshots of coexistence with cats, dirty dishes and depression. Without make up.
- Special screenings -
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, Villa Antonio
Mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted.
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, Opatija Summer Stage
(Closing Film)
Udruga za razvoj kulture "Točka kulture"
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Udruženje za razvoj kulture, nauke i umjetnosti "Scena" - koprodukcija
2023,
91`
Grandpa Guru presents in an eclectic documentary style the continuity of the work of the band Kultur Shock with special emphasis on the interesting life, music and art of their singer and frontman Srđan Gino Jevđević. We follow Gino's spiritual journey in search of his own identity and place in the world, after leaving Sarajevo during the war and arriving in Seattle, USA, where he meets Krist N...
izvan konkurencije / out of competition
, razgovori / conversations
, Villa Antonio
We should, in front of each image. ask ourselves the question of how it gazes (at us), how Itthinks (us) and how it touches (us) at the same time.
